tisdag 23 februari 2016

We often
get feedback from customers who have been on a canoe tour or a wilderness programme.
Letters, Mail or Photos are coming and we really do like it. To dag there came
a postcard from a German Scout group, Pfadfinder Drei Lilien, showing Four
young scout having fun on a camp, and they send us a card for Thanks Giving Day
. This group have been our guests several years and this season 2016 we will
have scouts from Danmark, Germany and Sweden. Some on Canoe Expeditions, some
for a bit Survival and Bushcraft training .It´s always nice to have youngsters
going out in the nature here in Nordmarken.

söndag 21 februari 2016

Last
evening the group of six doing winter training came back to Base Camp at
Nordmarken Canoe Center.A hot sauna, a
fine camp fire and some extra food and drink closed the training.

The weather
has been extremely good for training. Some cold nights, snow both dry and wet
snow and some heavy wind all to make weather condition perfect for training. They
told me that it has been a good training and that they have got a lot of how to
stay out even in real bad weather.

After a
good night sleeping they are now prepared for go back to Stockholm. Well done.

torsdag 18 februari 2016

Last night
at 0355 we had a group starting on Extreme Sub Artic training. One of the participants
has done several Bushcraft and Survival training with our WEISS programme earlier,
have now taken responsibilities for some near friends to let them have some days
out with almost nothing.

This time of
the year the dear buck are getting there horn and its normal cold and some snow
covering the wilderness in Nordmarken. This is a good time for winter training.
Yea!

We have had
Wolf and Lynx just around where the group are staying. A bit extra adventure!.

As usual we
do have some dear outside the office and so it is again this year and they also
having a good time. We give them some extra food but the Survival/Bushcraft
group is getting nothing from us. So it is.

måndag 15 februari 2016

10. Nordmarken Kanot-Center’s WEISS Survival Course (Sweden)

The
Wilderness Experience International Survival School is among the most respected
names worldwide for wilderness survival training. Nordmarken Kanot-Center is a
Swedish survival school offering two Wilderness Experience International
Survival School survival courses including the level one Temperate Survival
course. This course teaches fundamental survival skills necessary to survive in
Europe’s temperate areas. Completing it is the first step in a series of
courses that eventually enables successful graduates to earn the coveted
Wilderness Experience International Survival School badge.

Wilderness
survival training is becoming more popular with each passing day. Some
view it as just a

different kind of holiday while others see
survival training as an essential commodity in an ever more dangerous world.
Regardless of the reasons for attending, participants learn new skills and
different ways of thinking that serve them well in multiple areas of life.
Learning to survive in the wilderness is not a bad way to spend a free weekend
or holiday.

lördag 13 februari 2016

Early in
the morning and just before dark we have visitors outside the office at
Nordmarken Canoe Center. Last night we got some cm of snow and I put out some reindeer
pellets to support the dear with some extra food. Years ago we had 11 dear at
the same time and you can see some photos at my Facebook or the Blogg from 2013 -
2014.

We have had
both Lynx and Wolf near our house, but the last weeks there have been no snow so
we can’t search any tracks.

tisdag 2 februari 2016

I have some
abstinence. Snow gone, almost all ice gone and warm weather. Can’t be worse.
For me as on old outdoor and almost a Mountain Man I was waiting for real
winter. Sitting now warm and dry near the fire in the timber house at
Nordmarken Canoe Center I have to look at old photos from an expedition I made
to North West Greenland, north of Thule Air Base and north of Qaanaaq.

Inuit,
sledge dogs, sun, cold weather and lots of is. I want to go back for a new
tour. The photo is from the mountain deep in the bay south east of Qaanaaq, Inglefield
Bay.